The chairman of Uvwie Local Government Area, Mrs Stella Otiotio Daboner,yesterday, visited Barr. Evelyn Omavowan Oboro, member representing Uvwie/Sapele/Okpe federal Constituency in the House of Representatives in view of her ambition to run for  the council’s top job.

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The United Kingdom government has reiterated its support to Nigeria and neighbouring countries to defeat the destructive Boko Haram terrorists in the Northeast and the Lake Chad Basin region.

A Niger Delta rights group, the Ijaw Liberation Movement (ILM) has warned those attacking former President Jonathan for selfish reasons to desist from it, or face the wrath of the entire Niger Delta people.

OLEH—NIGER Delta Consultative Assembly, NIDCA, yesterday, told the Federal Government to suspend engagements with all claimants to the mandate of Niger Delta’s represen-tation until stakeholders from the oil-producing ethnic nationalities meet and agree on an acceptable umbrella platform for the region.

ENUGU—HUNDREDS of indigenes of Oboffia Awkunanaw, in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State protested what they called plans by some political leaders to impose an unpopular candidate on the community ahead of the  November 4, Council elections in the state.

The Abia State Government yesterday extended the dusk-to-dawn curfew slammed on the township of Aba in wake of rising security concenrns, just as it met with a broad spectrum of traditional rulers in the state. It plans more meetings with other stakeholders, especially market leaders.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, who is also the Chairman of Progressive Governors’ Forum, has described the agitation by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, for a sovereign republic in the South-East as a child’s play.

APPARENTLY bothered by  the industrial action rocking the education sector, leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has vowed to shut down all major federal express roads next week if no resumption date is fixed.

UMUAHIA—THE  composer of Biafra Anthem, All Hail Biafra, which Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB uses, Chief Charles O. Okereke, has disagreed with the call by the group for people to boycott the  November 18  governorship in Anambra State, saying that it was not  taken in the interest of the people.